EC warns budget not on track due to handouts, advises against further underspend

EconomyProgramme Tags: Budget, EC, Eurogroup, Pensions, Taxes
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Greece’s official creditors have recently expressed at various levels their concerns about whether the country will be able to meet its fiscal commitments after adopting a new batch of expansionary measures last month, so it was no surprise that this issue was explored extensively in the latest post-programme surveillance report published by the European Commission.

The European technocrats acknowledge that over the last few years Greece has managed to significantly over-perform on the fiscal front. Last year, the primary balance under the enhanced surveillance definition reached 4.3 percent of GDP. When factoring ...

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